View full sizeMicah Harrison, 30, of Robertsdale is shown in a 2009 Baldwin County Corrections Center photo. Harrison is facing murder charges in Indiana after his 2-year-old son, Michael, was fatally stabbed in the head on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Noblesville, Ind,

NOBLESVILLE, Indiana -- A Robertsdale, Alabama man accused of fatally stabbing his 2-year-old son wailed, banged his head on a table and asked a judge for a rope during his initial court appearance Thursday.

Micah William Harrison, 30, feared someone was trying to kill him Wednesday when he fatally stabbed his 2-year-old son, Michael, in the chest with a kitchen knife and in the forehead with a nail-pulling tool, police said in a probable cause affidavit.

A distraught Harrison appeared on a video link from the Hamilton County Jail during Thursday's appearance on a murder charge in Hamilton Superior Court.

When Magistrate David Najjar read him his rights, Harrison said, "What about a right to a rope?"

"I killed my poor little baby. Please kill me," Harrison begged.

Najjar entered a not guilty plea on Harrison's behalf and appointed him an attorney. He also ordered Harrison held without bond in the jail pending a March 12 trial date.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Lee Buckingham said he will consider seeking life without parole for Harrison.

Noblesville Police Detective Michael Sadler said in a probable cause affidavit that officers found the toddler with two knife-stab wounds to his chest and one stab wound from a nail puller in the forehead. Medics pronounced the boy dead Wednesday afternoon at the family's apartment about 15 miles north of Indianapolis.

The boy's grandmother, Pamela Harrison, told officers that "Micah stated that someone or something was trying to kill him" and that he hit a closet with a hammer, which she took from him, telling the man no one was there.

After she hid the hammer in a bedroom, she saw her son "moving quickly from the kitchen to the other bedroom where she knew Michael was playing." She found her son atop the boy, who was lying on the floor, and watched him stab Michael with the knife.

"Pamela took the knife from Micah and told Micah that he had just killed his son," Sadler wrote.

The first officer on the scene found Harrison with blood on his hands, the affidavit said.

Pamela Harrison told officers her son had driven from Alabama with Micah and two daughters, ages 4 and 5, on Tuesday. The children's mother did not accompany them.

According to Baldwin County (Alabama) jail records, Harrison has a history of run-ins with the law, dating back to 2003, on charges ranging from possession of a controlled substance to third-degree assault to being a minor in possession of alcohol, among other misdemeanors.

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Written by Associated Press Writer Charles Wilson with contributions from AP Writer Ken Kusmer. Al.com/Press-Register staff also contributed to this report.